An Arizona man testified this morning his former cellmate told him he killed a boy under circumstances similar to those that ended the life of 5-year-old Timothy Wiltsey in 1991. Watch video
NEW BRUNSWICK -- An Arizona man took the witness stand this morning and told a judge that his former cellmate told him he killed a boy under circumstances similar to those that ended the life of 5-year-old Timothy Wiltsey in 1991.
But Damien Dowdle said he had a lot of questions whether when Bernard Joseph McShane told him in July 1991 that he strangled a 5-year-old boy in 1991, it was Wiltsey, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski is facing trial next month for her son's murder.
Dowdle testified that McShane, who Dowdle said also molested him when he was a teenager before they were cellmates, told him he tried to molest a 5-year-old boy at a big event in Atlanta City in 1991, but strangled the boy after he began to cry and scream.
He realized later, after speaking to another inmate, it was probably Atlantic City in New Jersey because McShane spoke of boardwalks and casinos.
Dowdle testified that he immediately told his attorney what McShane told him and an investigator followed up on it, but no missing or murdered child was found in Georgia.
But, he admitted Friday that he doesn't know if what McShane told him applies to the Wiltsey case.
"I still have a lot of questions," he said. "There are some things that exclude the case, like where the boy's body was found. It was five miles away."
Dowdle got out of prison in Arizona after serving 18 years for bank robbery and looking up murdered children online. He said he found the Wiltsey case and contacted Gerald Krovatin, Lodzinski's attorney.
The story he told is similar to one of several different statements that Lodzinski gave to police. She originally told police that she and Wiltsey went to a carnival in Sayreville the evening of May 25, 1991, and he disappeared when she went to a stand to buy soda.
His body was found 11 months later in a wooded area in Edison.
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